Karl Schickhardt (painter)
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Karl Schickhardt (born July 7, 1866 in Eßlingen , † February 7, 1933 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg landscape painter and lecturer at the Stuttgart Art School. In his pictures he portrayed his Swabian homeland, especially the Swabian Alb .
Life
Youth and education
Karl Schickhardt was a son of the Stuttgart regional court director Hermann Schickhardt (1826–1880) and his wife Rosalie Karoline geb. Brodhay (1834-1902), who came from a respected family of industrialists. His older brother Hermann (1863–1895) was a general practitioner in Munich. After high school, Schickhardt studied with his mother's approval (his father had already died) at the Stuttgart Art School (now the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart ) in the years 1884–1887 with Albert Kappis and Jakob Grünenwald . Then in the years 1887-1892 he was a private student of Josef Wenglein in Munich , where he dealt specifically with landscape painting. From Munich he made study trips to Upper Bavaria , "to the old towns on the Neckar " and to Hohenlohe . During this time he also made a trip to Italy.
Schickhardt as a painter and lecturer
From the autumn of 1892 Schickhardt lived again in Stuttgart, where he got the position of a lecturer at the art school and in his studio in Urbanstrasse 53 he painted exclusively Swabian landscapes with great enthusiasm. The Swabian Alb, the Lauchert valley and the area around Rottenburg , especially Bad Niedernau , became his favorite motifs . His other motifs included u. a. the Lake Constance , the Fils Valley and the Neckar Valley. On July 19, Schickhardt married Alice von Redwitz, b. Hückel, a young widow and the daughter of the CEO of Württembergische Sparkasse Bernhard Hückel. Since the marriage the couple lived in the house where the woman was born at Schloßstraße 33/1, where Karl Schickhardt set up his studio.
Schickhardt was very popular at the beginning of the 20th century. "For a while, it was almost considered good form to have a 'real Schickhardt' hanging in the salon or boudoir." From around 1907, Schickhardt was a member of the administrative board of the Württemberg Art Association . In view of his achievements, Schickhardt was awarded the title of professor on February 25, 1911 by King Wilhelm II .
During his lifetime Schickhardt took part in at least two exhibitions of contemporary local painting:
- 1914 exhibition in Rottenburg, visits a. a. vom König, where 47 paintings by Schickhardt were shown
- 1927 Exhibition by the Württemberg Art Association in Stuttgart.
In his later years he was often seen in Stuttgart on his walks with the little dog Stumperle. He also enjoyed taking part in the gentlemen's table in the Hindenburg building .
estate
Karl Schickhardt was buried in the Pragfriedhof on February 9, 1933 . His wife Alice Schickhardt, who died eight months later, was buried in the same grave. The grave was dissolved in 1959.
Since Schickhardt was wealthy by nature, he did not have to rely on selling his paintings. He did not like to part with his works, so that after his death most of the works - from intimate oil sketches to large wall paintings - were several hundred in total in his estate. Schickhardt's widow commissioned his close friend, the Stuttgart historian Gustav Weis, to organize the estate. This arranged an auction at the art dealer Otto Greiner, which preceded a short memorial exhibition (April 22 - May 1, 1933) in the Upper Museum. The auction took place on May 2nd and 3rd. Although some of his works are in the Württemberg State Gallery , Städtische Galerie Albstadt , in some schools and town halls, most of them are scattered privately.
To honor his services "as a patron of the Niedernau baths and herald of our region", a "Schickhardtblick" was set up in an attractive location on the Albvereinweg Niedernau - Wittlichblick - Rottenburg as early as 1912. In Bad Niedernau, where Schickhardt spent the summer months with his wife for many years, there is now a Schickhardtstrasse in his memory. In the former spa hotel in Bad Niedernau there is a Schickhardtstube, where the memory of him is kept alive.
meaning
Schickhardt's technique is full of bravado and has ingenious means, especially knows how to use pastel and tempera, even in oil paintings, now for underpainting, now open to the air on which the clouds stand and the water.
Schickhardt had a gift for close observation of nature and in his impressionistic paintings he drew the terrain finely and accurately, reproducing the trees' growth and foliage in a splendid way.
Famous works
- Wurmlinger Chapel
- March snow
- spring
- Young oaks
- Farrenberg (monumental picture )
- Shore on Lake Constance
- Neckar near Rottenburg
- flooding
- 1924 Stenglesche Mühle in Bad Niedernau
- Stormy landscape
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , pp. 41–45. - He died in 1933 and not in 1932, as many sources incorrectly state.
- ↑ a b c Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 41
- ↑ a b c d e Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 45
- ↑ a b c Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 42
- ↑ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 47
See also
literature
Contemporary sources
- Kurt Weis: The estate of the alb painter Karl Schickhardt . In: "Der Hohenstaufen - Göppinger Tagblatt", April 25, 1933, p. 5
- Obituary for Karl Schickhardt . In: "Schwäbischer Merkur", February 9, 1933
- "Rottenburger Zeitung and Neckar-Bote", 1914, No. 148
- Eugen Gradmann: The landscape painters . In: Stuttgarter Kunst der Gegenwart , Stuttgart 1913, pp. 121–122
- Anton Bader: Bad Niedernau . In: "Rottenburger Zeitung", June 27, 1912
- "Württembergische Zeitung", March 15, 1911
Summarizing presentations
- Horst Schmid-Schickhardt : The Herrenberg carver. Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder from Siegen (1464–1540) or 500 years of the Swabian Schickhardt family 1503/2003 , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2003
- Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: Important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 1999
- Julius Fekete: Karl Schickhardt 1866–1933. The painter of the Swabian Alb . In: “Esslinger Studies” 38, 1999, pp. 91–119
- A. Pfeffer: A painter from the Swabian Alb . In: " Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein " 1933, No. 5
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schickhardt, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg landscape painter and lecturer at the Stuttgart Art School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esslingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1933 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |